If Satan said "I will be like the most high", then is he?

I remember asking a college professor at Bob Jones University this question, "If Satan said he is going to be like God, then how do we know who he (Satan) is?" And the professor said that it was just a "threat" and that God would never let Satan be like Him.

So I was 18 years old then. And of course, I totally believed what the professor said. I have gone through my life believing that Satan could not be like Jehovah. That God would never allow that to happen. What I did not know at the age of 18 is that college professors do not have the answers. The truly sad thing is that I thought they did.

Amazing how what a teacher, professor, preacher says that we buy into. We believe it because "they" said it. We don't take the time to do our own study or research. We believe them because we assume that they have studied and researched and that they know what they are talking about. But most of them do not. They simply form their ideas from what they were taught. Very few individuals actually research and when they do....they certainly don't try to find a different idea, they simply try to confirm what they already believe.

From the title of this blog, I think it's obvious that I was born a questioner. I started my career with Social Security where I interviewed people applying for retirement and disability benefits. So I spent my 8 hours in the office questioning people. I'm sure I upset numerous people with all my questions. I didn't limit it to just the questions on the application in front of me! I tended to go "outside the box" and ask questions based upon previous answers given to me.

Here's an example: women will spend their entire lives making themselves younger than they actually are in order to impress a man or someone else. Sometimes as much as 10 years younger. But when it comes to retirement age, they want to make themselves older in order to get benefits sooner. In the 1970s, many of these women did not have birth certificates, so they would give me a school record, a marriage certificate, their children's birth certificates and each piece of evidence had a different age/date of birth on it. And I had to evaluate this evidence, determine to the best of my ability what their actual date of birth was, and either approve or deny their eligibility to receive retirement benefits. Almost always, I used the oldest evidence available. The age on a person's grade school report card is much more accurate than the age on their child's birth certificate because their report card was probably issued 15 to 20 years earlier than their son or daughter's birth. However, their parent could have lied in order to get them into school at a very young age, or simply might not have remembered the real date of birth....but still, based on all the evidence, I most often took the oldest evidence as the most reliable.

But that's my point. How many of us take the evidence that is presented to us, analyze it, ask questions about it, verify the authenticity of it.....before we make a decision about it? Simple little things. How many of us go back to the earliest evidence and question the changes made to it since then?

My original birth certificate was lost years ago, but I have a copy of the one recorded in the state of Indiana. "Jennifer Lynn Moore." My baptismal certificate, of which I have the original, shows my name as Jennifer Lynne Moore. One letter off. Does it matter? Which is the oldest piece of information? What did my parents really desire as my name? Did the pastor who wrote out the baptismal certificate make a mistake by adding the "e" in my middle name? Did the hospital official make a mistake by leaving it off? I asked mom and she simply doesn't remember. And no, it doesn't really matter to me.....but does it matter when it comes to Jehovah Jesus Messiah, scripture translations.....and to Satan? Certainly!!!

Is 14:14. If Satan said that he would make himself to be like the most high. How has he done that? What name is he using that you and I might recognize him as the "most high"? Has he changed his name by one letter.....by a full word? Is he an imposter that we do not fully recognize?

If you were going to make yourself be like someone else.....how would you do it? Dress like them? Act like them? Talk like them? There are a lot of famous people in Hollywood that other people try to act just like. Doubles. Imposters. People who make themselves look just like them. How do we tell them apart? Sometimes - it's pretty hard to do. I once saw a Barbra Streisand impersonator and truly could not tell the difference in her looks, or her voice....until the impersonator took off the wig and showed that "she" was a man!

So, if Satan was going to make himself like Jesus....could we tell them apart? Could we do it without a whole lot of study, research, investigation, questioning?

And what if you accept Jesus as your personal savior....and you are really accepting Satan because he is the great imposter?

WOW!!!

Because Satan said that he would make himself to be like Jehovah G*d, I started putting together a table to compare the two systems. Keep in mind that when Jesus Messiah was here on earth, there was no written "New Testament", that He was a Jewish man, and that He would have practiced the Torah - Old Testament law. It is only over time that a "new" system was created by merging into it pagan practices. You truly need to study the evolution of religion since 70AD to fully understand this. I now see 2 distinct systems - here is my comparison:

God’s stage/players	Satan’s stage/players
Jehovah Jesus Messiah	Lord Jesus Christ
The Most High	make myself like the most high
Jews, Messianic	mostly Gentiles
Hebrew/Greek	King James and other translations
Passover – biblical	Easter - pagan
Sukkot – biblical	Christmas - pagan
Magen (shield of) David	Cross
Synagogue/Temple	Church
Meet, greet and escort to Israel	Pre-trib Rapture
The one true God	god
Lunar Hebrew calendar	Solar secular calendar
Days of the week are numbered	Days of the week are named
Months revolve around the moon	Months revolve around the sun
New day starts at sunset	New day starts at sunrise
Sabbath is day seven	Sunday is day one
Passover – once a year	Communion – monthly or weekly
Messiah born at Sukkot	Christ born at Christmas
Gifts to Israel	Tithe to church
Israel is the Bride	The church is the bride
Rosh Hashanah	New Year’s Day
Rabbi	Magi/Wise Men
Cherish	Love
Teacher/shepherd	Preacher/Pastor
Tribulation started in 70AD	tribulation in the future
Holocaust = Jacob’s trouble	Jacob’s trouble is future
Mazzaroth	Zodiac
Jerusalem	Tel Aviv
Jews are the chosen people	Anti-Semitic
Israel is the kingdom	Heaven
Preparing a tabernacle	Mansions and streets of gold
Grave	Hell
7th world power Roman Catholism	1st church was Roman Catholics
8th world power – Islam	Islam removed Israel from maps

Now, don't get me wrong. Jews do not believe that the Messiah was born at Sukkot. These are simply the differences that I see between the 2 systems when you use the original Greek and Hebrew texts.

I am sure there are more comparisons and as I come to think of them I will go back and edit this list. But I think you can start to see how similar the 2 "systems" are. Amazing, isn't it? That after 2000 years, the adversary has made himself to seem like god. And while I know that most everyone who attends a "christian" church today will completely deny the remote possibility that their preacher is a false minister, scripture does warn us of this.

What if this is how it really is? No doubt, there are those among my family and friends who will deny that they are on the adversary's stage. I'm simply asking, "what if?" What if there are two stages. What if this "war" has been going on for the last 2000 years between Jehovah and the adversary? What if Satan truly is working this very day to make himself seem like the most high? If there are only 2 stages with no other options, then which stage are you on? At the very least, I hope you will think about it and not be like me - trusting that a college professor had the answer. And my prayer is that my children will come to know the true Jehovah, not the false christ.

Who is Jesus?

Ralph Mount did a cassette lesson titled, “The Truth About Jesus If You Really Want to Know”. I highly recommend it – if you want to know.

But I think most people don’t want to know. I think most people are happy to sit and listen to someone else tell them who they think Jesus is….and don’t try to find out who He REALLY is.

This is not really an if-ism. I have no questions on this one – this is simply my personal “fact sheet”. So I’ll call it a fact-ism.

I guess there are those who think He was a human being. I have never thought that. I have always known Him to be the Son of G-d, the Son of Jehovah, G-d in the flesh – however you want to say it. I have never doubted for one second in my entire life that Jesus was the son of G-d.

And that amazes me. I love to question everything. I love to argue. I love to research, study, learn, grow. But since as early as I can remember, no matter who has wanted to have a discussion with me, I have remained steadfast in my personal knowledge that Jesus is the Messiah, that He is the Son of G-d, that He is the Savior.

But in recent study, I think I have come to know more of who He is.

No one has ever seen the face of Jehovah the Father. Jesus is Jehovah in the flesh.

I think it’s important to mention a couple of things here. In most Bible translations, there’s a dividing point called the Old Testament and the New Testament. But they really are not in the right place. The New Testament, or new covenant, actually began only after the resurrection of Jesus. His life, His teachings, everything prior to His death…is literally still part of the “old” covenant. There was nothing “new” until after He was raised from the dead.

So, that should help you understand that during His life here on earth, He was bound by the “law” (the Old Testament, the old covenant). He would have taught the Torah. He would have studied the Torah. There were no gospels for Him to speak from. He would have kept all of the Jewish customs, feasts….and I believe if you study, you will see that He did. The last supper was in fact a Passover. He simply expounded upon them, explained them, expanded them.

What else do I believe?

That He entered into the belly of Mary moments before birth. That she prepared a human body, a “tabernacle” for Him to dwell in. That she is NOT the mother of God, she was the person assigned to prepare a human dwelling for the Son of G-d. There is no reason to worship her. In fact, I believe that would be a sin.

I believe that there was nothing human about Him other than the body that He was in. He was Jehovah on earth. He was sent to the Jews as the Messiah. I believe that He was in the beginning.

Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness;….

Plural.

I also think that the “new” testament should build upon the “old” testament. Not take anything away from it, but rather add to it. But I also think if you are Jewish, and if you keep the law, you will have eternal life because you keep the law. Therefore, I would not try to convert someone who is Jewish. I think it is far worse for a Jewish person to take up pagan holidays such as Christmas and Easter than to keep Passover and Sukkot.

I believe that the gospel of the good news of salvation has already been told.

Col 1:21-23 “having-been preached in all creation the (one) under the heaven.

I believe that the gospel of the good news of the kingdom was future and that this was fulfilled in 1948 when the kingdom was restored to the Israeli and when they joined the UN in 1949, then the entire world knew this as well.

ACTS1v6 On-the-one-hand therefore the (ones) having-come-together were-questioning him saying, Lord, if in this time are-you-restoring the kingdom to-the Israeli?

ACTS1v7 He-said to them: It-is not of-YOU to-come-to-know times or seasons which the Father placed-for-himself in (his) own authority,

ACTS1v8 BUT YOU-will-take power, (after) the Holy Spirit (is) having-come-on upon YOU, and YOU-will-be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all the Judea and Samaria even till last of-the earth.

ACTS1v9 And having-said these-things (as) they (were) looking he-was-elevated, and (a) cloud assumed him from their eyes.

ACTS1v10 And as they-were staring into the heaven, (as) he (was) proceeding, and behold two men were-having-stood-alongside with-them in white esthesis,

ACTS1v11 Who also said: Men, Galileans, why have-YOU-stood-and-are-still-standing looking into the heaven? This the Jesus namely-the (one) having-been-taken-up from YOU into the heaven thus he-will-come (in) which manner YOU-beheld him proceeding into the heaven.

I believe that Jesus came to earth as a Jew. I believe that all of scripture was given to the Jews, written by Jews, and that Jesus was here as a Jewish man. The “church” did not exist. The Gospels have nothing to do with the “church”. They were all written by Jews, to Jews. That means Luke was a Jew. Paul was a Jew. Nothing else.

I believe that Gentiles can be grafted into the tree as a branch, but that the branch can be broken off.

Most important, I want my children to know that I pray for them every single day...that Jehovah will soften their hearts, that they might come to know who Jehovah Jesus Messiah is and that one day, they might understand what their mom believed.

What if the “ten commandments” are wrong???

I remember asking once why we “said” there were only 10 commandments…..when I certainly counted way more than ten. Have you ever actually read the scripture…or just memorized the commandments as given by your “church”?

EX 20: 1-17

Here's how I see it:

1 You shall have no other gods before me
2. You shall not make any graven image, or likeness of anything, that is in heaven above, or in the earth, or that is in water.
3. You shall not bow down to the idols
4. You shall not serve those idols
5. You shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
6. Remember the sabbath day, keep it holy
7. Work 6 days
8. Do not work on the 7th day.
9. Honor thy father and mother
10. You shall not kill
11. You shall not commit adultery
12. You shall not steal
13. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor
14. You shall not lust after your neighbor's wife
15. You shall not covet your neighbor's house, wife, manservant, maidservant, ox, ass, or anything that is his

They are listed a second time, in Deuteronomy. This time, they are translated as "ten commandments, the the Hebrew literally means "ten matters".

1. You shall have no other gods before me
2. You shall not make any graven image, likeness that is in heaven, earth or in the waters
3. You shall not bow down to them
4. You shall not serve them
5. You shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
6. You shall keep the sabbath day, sanctify it
7. You shall work 6 days
8. You shall not work on the 7th day
9. Remember Egypt
10. Honor thy father and mother
11 You shall not kill
12. You shall not commit adultery
13. You shall not steal
14. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor
15. You shall not desire your neighbor's wife
16. You shall not covet your neighbor's house, field, manservant, maidservant, ox, ass, or anything that is his.


So, there really are 16 commandments, that break down their content into 10 matters.

The first matter, dealing with the first 4 commandments, deals with God.

There are also 4 commandments given concerning the matter of the Sabbath.

But when you think about it......there were actually 16 commandments written on the stones...concerning 10 different matters.

These instructions constitute a covenant between God and His people. (EX 34:28 and Deut 4:13) The benefits of following these commandments are explained in Deut 28: 1-14.

If you promise to follow these, and then don't, the punishment is listed in Deut 5:9....to the 4th generation. Pretty severe stuff!

Most people think that the New Testament did away with the Old Testament. Actually, it should be called the Old Covenant and the New Covenant. The "new" simply builds upon the "old".....adds to it and explains it even better.

And you have to remember that the New Testament as written today - most of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are actually part of the Old Testament as there was no "new" testament until after the resurrection of the Messiah.

Matthew 22: 37-40 shows us there is a hierarchy, and a dependency to the commandments. When Jesus was asked what the most important commandment was, He replied:

Love Yahuwah your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

That last sentence shows us that all the other commandments of the Old Testament are elaborations and detailed explanation of the 2 commandments mentioned here. Thus the above 16 commandments could be split into two topics: 1) to love God, and 2) to love your neighbor.

I think each of the ten matters deserves it's own discussion. We can "argue" our way out of any of these, but if taken literally, how far do we go? Is a child's doll a "graven image" since it is made in the likeness of man? If you work on Saturday are you violating a commandment? If you kiss a cross before you pray, are you worshiping a graven image? If there is the image of Mary or Jesus or anyone/thing else in your church.....are you violating a commandment? Do you bow down to Mary? Not to mention "saints"?

I grew up in a church that had a picture of Jesus on the wall. He had flowing light brown hair and white skin. Not sure that a Jewish person looks like that at all.

And then there was the "Living Christmas Tree" in San Diego where "Mary" was blond. I know it's just a pageant, but why not make it a little bit more realistic? Mary and Jesus were both middle eastern Jews of 2000 years ago. I have to wonder if there is a reason for the commandment to not make any graven image.....because G-d knew it would be the wrong image?

If your church does not have all 16 commandments in these 10 matters listed....why not? It was the Roman Catholics who gave us the condensed version of 10 commandments. Pay attention to what was left out. And how they worship. Pretty convenient to make scripture say what you want it to say. One has to wonder if this isn't Satan's power here on earth - to twist and distort scripture until pagan rituals are made to seem right.

Nowhere are we given permission to leave anything out, to eliminate commandments!

I like # 9 - remember Egypt. This is a commandment. How many "christians" even know what happened in Egypt? Most "churches" that I ever attended said that the Old Testament was no longer "valid". Or that there was no need to study the Old Testament. I sort of think that's completely wrong. How can we know what the new covenant is building on if we don't know what the old covenant is?

If there are FOUR commandments relating to the matter of the Sabbath, one would think that's pretty important. And in all honesty, I don't like the one that we are to work 6 days. I like just working 5 days. But I'm thinking maybe I'd better work on that 6th day.

And yes, you can say that these were given to the Jews who were under law, but since the Messiah refers to them, and since the new covenant only builds upon the old covenant, I am convinced that we are to live by all 16 of these commandments.

What if that's correct and you aren't following all 16 of them? Interesting, huh?

What if Aquarius is closer than we think?

My dad was an extremely brilliant man. I remember he would ask me the most interesting questions. I'm sure he never expected me to answer them.....they were discussion starting questions.

One day, he said to me, "I wonder what would happen if God shifted the earth's poles just a little bit." Well, I had been studying magnetic power in school and I immediately informed dad that batteries would no longer work. He said, "you are right!"

There are days when I wonder what ever happened to that brilliant childhood brain I had? Now I have to look up everything. So in my quest to better determine if there are signs in the stars, one of the thing I have been studying is the shift in the earth's axis in relationship to the ages.

Two times a year, as the Earth revolves in its orbit, its axis reaches a midpoint where neither the North or South Poles are tilted towards the sun. The days when this takes place are called the Vernal (Spring) and Autumnal (Fall) Equinox. The word comes from Latin, meaning "equal night" - that is, when the night is equal to the day. The Vernal Equinox is our first day of Spring.

The precession of the equinoxes: "Precession" is the gradual "backwards" movement of the outer visible universe and is used to determine the astrological Age which we are in. We are presently in Pisces. This is determined by locating the Sun's position in the zodiac at the exact moment of the Vernal (Spring) Equinox. Every 72 years the Sun backs up about 1 degree. An astrological age is the amount of time that it takes for the Sun to move backwards throughout one complete zodiac sign. 72 years x 30 degrees = 2160 years = the length of an astrological age.

So, it takes about 2160 years to go through an age. BUT. What if earthquakes cause the earth's axis to shift, then would that decrease the number of years and cause the next age to come sooner?

It is said that on the day Jesus died, the earth shook, the skys were darkened, and we entered into the age of Pisces. The veil in between Holy of Holies and Holy Place - was rent. Access was granted, one mediator between man and God.

Matthew 27:51, And behold the veil of-the sanctuary was-split into two, from from-above till below; and the earth was-caused-to-quake, and the rocks were-split,

Luke 23:45, And the sun was-made-dark, and the veil of-the sanctuary was-split-(in) midst.

What if the earth shook the axis enough to move from Aries into Pisces?

It takes 2250 - 2600 years for the equinox to progress through a Zodiac constellation. There are 12 of these and each one is 30 degrees totaling 360 degrees

The age of Aries was from the time of Moses (2000 BC) til the death of Jesus (the sky darkened, the earth shook, the veil was rent.)

The age of Taurus was from the flood (4000 BC) until Moses.

The age of Gemini was from the Creation until the Flood.

If that is true, and the next age, the messianic age is Aquarius, then that totals 5 ages which leaves a remainder of 7 ages.

And if a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day and it took 7 "days" to create the earth (7000 years).....that would complete the entire cycle. I don't know if that's how it is, but it seems to be a possibility.

What if there is a relationship between all the earthquakes that are happening....and getting us to Aquarius a little faster than we're supposed to get there? The earthquake in Chili moved the earth's axis 3 degrees. The one in Japan this past March moved it 9 inches.

When the sun appears to be in the original constellation of Aquarius at sunrise on the first day of Spring, we will know that we are in the Age of Aquarius.

So next, I needed to look at the names of the stars in this constellation and what they meant:

Aquarius means water bearer (Pourer Forth of Water) and the Babylonian name means "the great one". Consider John 7:37-39

JOHN7v37 But in the last day namely-the great (one) of-the feast the Jesus had-stood, and he-cried saying, If someone might-be-thirsting, let-him-be-coming to me and let-him-be-drinking.

JOHN7v38 The (one) trusting with-reference-to me, according-as the scripture said, rivers of-living water will-flow out-of his belly.

JOHN7v39 But this he-said concerning the Spirit which the (ones) trusting with-reference-to him were-being-about to-be-taking; for (the) Holy Spirit not-yet, because the Jesus was not-as-yet glorified.

And what if there is a relationship between the astrological signs, the astronomical signs, the 12 tribes of Israel, the 12 gates of Jerusalem, and the astrological ages? Oh! WOW!!!

Again, I put together a grid. I like them. They help me see things a little more clearly.

Age	Constellation	Degree	Tribe	Approximate dates	Month	stone
Aries	Ram or Lamb	0 – 30	Benjamin	2000 BC (Moses) to Jesus Death	Adar	jasper
Taurus	Bull	30-60	Reuben	4000 BC to 2000 BC	Nisan	ruby
Gemini	Twins	60-90	Simeon	Creation to Flood?	Lyar	topaz
Cancer	Crab	90-120	Levi	Day 7	Sylvan	smaragd
Leo	Lion	120-150	Judah	Day 6	Tammuz	carbuncle
Virgo	Virgin	150-180	Zebulon	Day 5	Av	emerald
Libra	Scales	180-210	Issachar	Day 4	Elul	sapphire
Scropio	Scorpion	210-240	Dan	Day 3	Tishrei	jacinth
Sagittarius	Archer	240-270	Gad	Day 2	Cheshan	agate
Capricorn	Fish-goat	270-300	Asher	Day 1	Kislev	beryl
Aquarius	Water bearer	300-330	Nephali	Next age – Messiah returns	Tevet	amethyst
Pisces	The Fishes	330-360	Joseph	Jesus death - present	Shevat	onyx

Note: there are numerous different websites that give conflicting information on which tribe goes with which constellation. It's just interesting that a tribe is affixed to each constellation, and a gate to Jerusalem, and an age....and so forth.

Remember also that the Greek word in the KJV that has been translated as "world" usually means "age" in most places. It's not a new world that's coming, it's a new age. I don't think that' too hard to imagine. Jehovah promised the land to Abraham forever. If this world ends, that wasn't much of a promise, was it? Once again, translations seem to get us more confused than anything else.

What if there are 12 ages? What if earthquakes will move us into the Aquarius age sooner than expected? What if that is the Millenium age when Jehovah Jesus Messiah returns to reign on earth, when Jerusalem rules the earth? What if the signs are in the stars?

Perhaps we all need to look to the sky a little more often.

What if the signs are in the stars?

I'll bet you're wondering what the answer was to that question back in the 50s in the middle of Indiana in a tiny Methodist church? I was told that we did not study astrology, that it was "of the devil". But yet all these years, I have wondered about this verse:

Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the billows;

That's the King James Version. But the Consistent Translation shows:

LUKE 21v25 And signs will-be in sun and moon and stars, and over the earth (a) holding-together of-nations in perplexity, (as) sea and surf (is) sounding,

So, what signs? And how do we see them? Because I never studied astronomy, and barely knew the difference between that and astrology, this has been a difficult study for me, but I am completely fascinated with some of the results I'm finding.

Planet X comes into our solar system every 3660 years. So if you start with next year and subtract 3660 years, that takes us back to 1645BC. Geologists say that was the great volcanic explosion of the Santorini calders whose drifting ash cloud was described in EX 9.

3660 years prior to that was 5308 BC when geologists say the Great Flood of Noah's day covered the earth. Dating is based on geological evidence involving the Black Sea.

Planet X is also called Nibiru or Elenin. It was aligned with the Sun, Earth and Mercury on 3/11/11 (spring equinox) when the Japan 9.0 earthquake hit.

So looking at Elenin's alignment with the earth, I put together this grid: (click to enlarge)

Remember my blog about God shaking His finger at us? Our legislators are looking at a debt resolution. If they vote on one on Monday and it eliminates support to Israel (guaranteeing loans for them, etc.), then we are in a perfect position for God to "shake His finger" at us once again.

I do think everything depends on the actions of our leaders.....and we are the ones who vote them into office, so it depends on each of us.

Consider these events coming up:

1. Between 9/24 and 9/27, the UN will consider a resolution to create a Palestinian State, having Israel return to her 1967 borders and move the boundaries of Jerusalem. (Zach 12: 1-3)
2. An estimated 1 million Palestinians to take to the streets after the UN meetings.
3. Egypt has their first election making a Muslim Brotherhood ruler imminent (Isaiah 19:4) Election preparations start on 9/18.
4. 9/28 is the Feast of Trumpets in Israel. This will be the 63rd Feast of Trumpets since the birth of Israel which leaves 7 years until Israel turns age 70. And 70 years represents a generation.
5. 9/20, the gay and lesbian service members can serve openly in the US military
6. Israel is preparing for war to start in September. US aircraft carriers CVN77 and CVN 76 have entered the Persian Gulf. Lebanon has 50,000 missiles pointed at Israel, Egypt and Hamas, maybe Jordan, will send in missiles, Iran - possible nuclear warheads? But God is on Israel's side, and that makes Israel a majority.
7. Israel's Labor Party primary on 9/12 and they are expected to discuss leaving Netanyahu's coalition after that.
8. California schools start - the first state to require public schools add lessons about gay history in social studies classes.
9. 9/22 starts the Durban III Conference (targets Israel) in NYC
10. Increased earthquakes in and around the "ring of fire"
11. Increase volcanic activity i.e., steam venting, earth cracking....

Do we need to look up a little more often?

"He telleth the NUMBER of the stars, he calleth them all by there NAMES". PS 147:7

"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handy-work. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night SHEWETH KNOWLEDGE. PS 19:1

So that was another childhood question I remember asking. If HE numbered the stars and called them all by name, how many stars were there? And I was told I'd find out when I got to heaven! Amazing that we can know the answers today.

There are 1,064,340,000,000,000,000 stars in the sky. Soncino Talmud, Vol 16, page 201 Berakoth 32b: "Resh Lakish said, The Holy One, blessed be He, answered her: My daughter, twelve constellations have I created in the firmament, and for each constellation I have created 30 hosts, and for each host I have created 30 cohorts, and for each cohort I have created 30 maniples, and for each maniple I have created 30 camps, and to each camp I have attached 365 thousands of myriads of stars, corresponding to the days of the solar year, and all of them I have created only for thy sake." This quote was taken from "The Law Prophesied" by R. H. Mount. (page 13)

Now, my understanding is simply that when Elenin, Planet X, aligns itself with earth, there is magnetic pull which can cause earthquakes, tidal changes, weather changes, pole shifts, and other things. But is this God's way of preparing us....we know the dates based on the movement of the stars (signs)?

Going back to my discussion of God shaking His little finger at us, is it possible He might shake His fist at us in September? If America votes to support a Palestinian state, He could use the magnetic pull of Elenin to cause huge earthquakes on earth. He could continue to punish America for promoting homosexuality in the military. He could do so much. And I have to ask.....what if the signs are in the stars?

If God condemns sun worship, are you guilty?

One of those early childhood questions that no one answered was “why do we worship on Sunday?” I was very good at math. I knew that Sunday was the FIRST day of the week, not the 7^th day of the week. I was very good at logic. I knew Sunday was not the 7^th day of the week. But no one ever took the time to explain to me the history of the conversion between the Sabbath and Sunday worship. Probably because no one really knew (1950s – no internet, and our little local library didn’t have much in it).

So who changed the 7^th day to the 1^st day?

Long before Jesus arrived on earth, pagans worshiped on Sunday. It was the day the sun was worshiped. The Chaldeans, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Medo-Perisnas, the Grecians and the Romans were sun worshippers.

http://www.bibletruth.cc/Body_Sunday.htm

Acts shows us that the first Christians were Jews, and the earliest church is classifiable as a messianic sect within Judaism. The disciples were frequently found in the temple, continued to observe the law, circumcision, Sabbath worship and the food laws.

So, you see, there were 2 conflicting factors….the pagans who had been worshiping on Sunday, and the new Christians and the Jews who were worshipping on the Sabbath.

In the 4^th century Constantine saw that half the people worshiped on Sunday – pagans, half kept the Sabbath – professed Christians/Jews. He wanted to cement the 2 factions. He published 2 edicts – the first enjoined the solemn observance of Sunday and the second directed the regular consultation of the auspices – a pagan practice.

Fact: Constantine was a pagan to every inch of his body. He was a non-discriminatory heathen. Constantine worshipped all the gods - especially Apollo the god of the sun. He held the title Pontifex Maximus which was the title of the high priest of paganism. These and other considerations make it clear that Constantine's form of Christianity was actually a modified version of mystery religion. - The Mystery of Iniquity that had been at work since the time of Babel.

Constantine saw something that the emperors before him did not see - the opportunity to make peace through compromise. He never really converted to Christianity. But what he did accomplish was to convert Christianity to paganism. He was a pawn in Satan's hand to pervert the Christian faith with all of paganism's trappings.

On March 7, 321, Constantine gave forth his Sunday law:

“Let all the judges and town people and the occupation of all trades rest on the venerable day of the sun (Dies Solis); but let those who are situated in the country, freely and at full liberty, attend to the business of agriculture; because it often happens that no other day is so fit for sowing corn and planting vines; lest the critical moment being let slip, men should lose the commodities granted by Heaven.” Right there we find the genesis of Sunday keeping in the Christian Church.

The church followed the leadership of Constantine, and in the year 364, at the council of Laodicea, passed a law requiring that Christians must “not Judaize by resting on Saturday.” Eusebius, a noted bishop of the church, states, “All things whatsoever that it was duty to do on the Sabbath, these we have transferred to the Lord’s day.” Here, then, it is plain that a human hand, and not a divine, changed the Sabbath. Eusebius says, “We have transferred.”

Finally the Sabbath was crushed, and Sunday, the pagan holiday, was instituted. Henceforth, it was espoused by the church, and supported, as it is in our day. Doctor Eck, the astute lawyer and champion of the Church in its controversy with Martin Luther, admits, “The church has changed the observance of the Sabbath to Sunday on its own authority, without Scripture, doubtless under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.”

And that got me to thinking, what do Hebrews call the days of the week on their calendar?

1. Yom Rishon = first day (gentile’s Sunday)
   
2. Yom Sheni = second day
   
3. Yom Shlishi = third day
   
4. Yom Revi’I = fourth day
   
5. Yom Chamishi = fifth day
   
6. Yom Shishi = sixth day
   
7. Yom Shabbat = Sabbath day, day of rest
   
   

They just go by numbers!

When the Gregorian calendar was established, the names of the days were taken from planets and gods

Sunday – Sun’s day, day of the sun

Monday – Moon’s day, day of the moon

Tuesday, Tyr’s day. Tyre was a god of combat and heroic glory in Germanic paganism, day of Mars

Wednesday – Day of Wodan, more commonly known as Odin, the highest god in Norse mythology, a prominent god in England until the 7
^th century, day of Mercury

Thursday – Thor’s day, Germanic god of thunder, day of Jupiter

Friday, Day of Frige, the Germanic goddess of beauty, an incarnation of the Norse goddess Frigg, day of Venus

Saturday – Saturn’s day, Roman god associated with the Titan Cronos, father of Zeus and many Olympians.

Why on earth did that happen???? Another one of Satan's ways to rule this earth.

I think it’s pretty obvious that we are not to worship the sun:

Deut 4:19; 17:3

II Kings 23:5

Job 31:26-23

Ezek 8:16 - most clearly against sun worship...God says, "I will deal with them in anger: I will not look on them with pity or spare them."

But of all things – to worship on the Sun’s day? Not to mention that scripture clearly states that we are to keep the Sabbath forever (it's a commandment, you know?)…if you worship on Sunday….it’s pagan.

What are other symbols of sun (pagan) worship? Feel free to google them, but here’s my list:

Churches that face West (members face east to worship

Statues with sun burst coronas (liberty)

Facing east to pray

Facing east for any part of a religious service

Obelisks – honor the sun god

Sunrise service – face east

And a most interesting thought:

Marks of the sun:

http://www.markswatson.com/marksun.pdf

It’s interesting that a lot of the “old time” church buildings were built facing east and you walked straight in and faced west to worship. Yet they had other items such as an obelisk (steeple). And all of them worshiped on Sunday.

I always hated Easter sunrise service. Nothing at all to do with the fact that we got up when it was pitch black, drove forever to some place outside that was freezing cold....it was that the sun hurt my eyes something horrible when I looked into it. I have to wonder if that was God's way of protecting me? While others were praising their sun god, I was wincing in pain, looking down, unable to look to the east. To this very day, the morning sun hurts my eyes if I look to the east. Praise Jehovah. Praise Him that even though my questions were not answered when I was a child....He still led me where He wanted me to go. Amazing grace.

If you know it’s pagan, if you know it’s against scripture, why do it? If you know that God will deal with you in anger, if He will not look on you with pity, or spare you.....why do you still do it? If you face the east in any part of your worship, if your building has a steeple on it, if there's an image with a sunburst on it, it is pagan. And if you want to continue to worship that way, at least acknowledge that you are pagan.

And because He commanded that you keep the Sabbath and a pagan ruler made the change to Sunday, know that if you worship on Sunday, you are pagan.

It's never to late to learn what scripture really says and to change your daily life to be more of what He tells us to be.